MegaPlay (behind both hianime and anikoto) stopped returning
sources.file in plaintext and now ships the stream URL in an
AES-256-CBC 'enc' field. Key/IV are static, hardcoded in their public
player JS (newclient.min.js) — anti-scrape obscurity, not access
control. Shared megaplay_sources() in upstream.py tolerates both
shapes, so a revert upstream breaks nothing.
Also: hianime master_m3u8 now raises when servers are listed but none
resolve (403s, stale format) instead of returning None — a listed-but
dead server is a provider fault, not 'no dub', and the old None
silently short-circuited the ANI_SOURCE fallback chain.
hianime's HD-1 slot rotated to a megaplay chain whose CDN (norami.top)
is Cloudflare-blocked for us, which killed stream resolution (CDN probe
sat at 0 KB/s). The ZokoAnime server still serves the working
zokoanime chain. _master_m3u8 now walks every listed server of the
wanted type; _embed_payload handles both chains (window.__P blob and
megaplay data-id/getSourcesNew with re-roll). stream_meta returns {}
when the host is ours but no referer is needed, so the /stream
allowlist still holds.
- hianime.py: capture the first .vtt from the deobfuscated embed JSON
(SUBS), expose subtitles(ep_id)
- upstream.py: subtitles() dispatcher (None for anidb, which bakes subs in)
- app.py: /api/episode/{id}/stream also returns a 'sub' stream token
- app.js: add a native <track> after hls.attachMedia (hls.js _cleanTracks
disables tracks present at attach time — that silently killed earlier
attempts) and set mode=showing so Chrome fetches the cues
- providers/{anidb,anikoto,hianime}.py: per-source modules behind the
ANI_SOURCE fallback dispatch (upstream.py _call/_providers)
- hianime.py: pystardust/ani-cli#1897 flow — search/episode-list/
servers API, HD-1 hash -> base64 embed url, window.__P blob
(base64 + XOR 'otaku-embed-v1') -> master m3u8; registers CDN hosts
and the required Referer via stream_meta()
- upstream.py: get_stream/fetch_parallel accept extra headers;
default source order hianime,anidb,anikoto (anidb.app is 503)
- app.py: /stream allowlist accepts provider-registered hosts and
sends their Referer; status probe follows the primary provider
(hianime variant URIs are relative to the variant path)
- app.js: error-time position save floors at furthest point reached
(hls.js resets currentTime to 0 before playerFail on fatal errors)
- tests: default-order + hianime import checks; live browser suite green
Lane floor dropped 256KB -> 32KB so typical 0.35-2.2MB segments get the
full 16 lanes. Live check: 16 lanes used, 719KB in 0.55s, sha256
identical. Same fallback guarantees as before.
The slow-segment logs show per-connection CDN throttling (15-40 KB/s
dribbles). yt-dlp's standard fix is -N 16 parallel fragment lanes; this
is the 4-lane version for the proxy: HEAD for content-length, then 4
concurrent Range GETs reassembled byte-exact (verified sha256-identical
to a direct CDN fetch). Small files (<512KB) still use a single GET.
ANY failure (no content-length, 416, lane error, timeout) falls back to
the existing single-stream path, so this is never worse than before.
Caveat (measured live): when the CDN caps SHARED egress rather than
per-connection, lanes just split the same pie — in that window both
1-lane and 4-lane time out. A different source is the only real fix
for those windows.
18/18 tests (new test pins lane stitch + fallback; also fixed a
pre-existing _get stub leak in the Jikan-shape test).
anidb's episodes API has no names (id/number/filler only), but the
Jikan call we already make for intro timings carries them (title +
title_japanese). _parse_intros now keeps one entry per episode with
title and optional start/length (entries are never null anymore).
Client: attachEpNames() reuses the introCache promise, stamps
epsList[i].name, re-renders; buttons show the name (3-line clamp) +
full tooltip. Jikan down => no names, no error (same graceful
degradation as the skip-intro button).
Verified headless: Jujutsu Kaisen S1 24/24 buttons named
('E1 | Ryomen Sukuna' ...); S2 (Jikan 504 at the time) rendered
gracefully without names. 17/17 API tests.
fragLoadTimeOut root cause: /stream buffered the whole segment
(r.content) before sending, so the browser's time-to-first-byte = the
CDN's entire upload time. On slow CDN moments that trips hls.js's
first-byte timer even though the segment would have completed.
- upstream.get_stream(): opens the upstream response without reading
the body (stream=True), same retry/timeout rules as _get
- segments now flow to the browser as the CDN emits them (256KB chunks);
the 12s cap becomes a total-transfer cap; cache is populated on
completion only (a truncated body never poisons the LRU)
- playlists keep the buffered path (body needed for URI rewriting)
- cache-hit fast path restored for both (stream() checks the LRU first)
Verified: segment byte-identical to direct CDN (sha256), sequential
keep-alive 3/3 OK, 5 concurrent fetches 200+identical, cache hit
0.148s miss -> 0.001s hit, 17/17 API tests green.
Skipped: raising hls.js retry counts — the first-byte race was the
binding constraint, not the retry budget.
Jikan /anime/{id}/episodes returns the episode list DIRECTLY under
'data' (flat array), not {'episodes': [...]}. The old code called
.get() on that list -> AttributeError, swallowed by the endpoint's
except -> [] -> the skip button could never appear, even with Jikan
up. Accept both shapes now.
Verified end-to-end with a mocked /api/intros response: the button is
wired into the player, visible exactly while currentTime is inside the
intro window (111-188s test), hidden outside it.
The live button still awaits Jikan/MAL recovery (504ing since this
feature landed); failures are not cached, so it activates on the first
successful fetch.
Skipped: MAL-direct fallback — official API needs a client key
(403 without), and the keyless HTML page carries no intro data.
- upstream: _intros(mal_id) -> per-episode {start,length} (seconds),
30d TTL cache; Jikan is down or show uncovered -> [] (no button)
- app: GET /api/intros/{mal_id}, never errors into the player
- player: 'skip intro' pill appears while currentTime is inside the
intro window (+8s grace); click seeks past; reappears if rewound.
Ep-1 intros are often missing in MAL data, so falls back to the
show's first known timing (usually identical across eps)
- test: _parse_intros unit test (Jikan itself is 504ing right now,
live path verified by hand: endpoint returns [] cleanly)
- upstream._get: one 300ms retry on transient errors (CF 403/503, 429,
5xx); 404 stays final. Fixes the 502 cluster that hls.js couldn't
recover from (fragLoadTimeOut x3 in error log)
- /stream: upstream timeout 12s < hls.js fragLoadingTimeOut (20s), so a
hung segment 502s first and hls.js retries instead of fatal-timing-out
- /stream responses: Cache-Control public max-age=86400 (VOD + token is
the exact upstream URL => immutable); re-opens/re-seeks skip the proxy
- /api/stream: drop unused qualities (frontend never read it; saved a
~0.2s cold upstream round-trip per episode)
- app.js/style.css: max-age=300 instead of no-store
- test_history_page_and_delete: stale selector (home redesign removed
the 'view all' link; use 'history ->')
- /stream/{token}: tokens are plain base64; allowlist https://hls.anidb.app
so a session can't use the proxy for arbitrary URLs (new test)
- X-Aniweb:1 required on POST/DELETE except /login — SameSite=Lax is
still sent on cross-site form POSTs, which could hit /account/delete
(new test; SPA + tests send the header)
- tmp+os.replace writes for users/history/searches: a crash mid-write
could corrupt the JSON -> load() returned {} -> silent data loss
- resume positions now read from full history (?all=1), not top-5
- pagehide bound once; savePos reads currentEp (no stale closures)
- account delete also removes the searches file; episodes TTL 5m
- ani-web.service: supervised restart (not installed; see header)
- gitignore pi-session dumps + .pytest_cache
- showHome(): most recent entry renders as a hero card (poster,
episode/lang/position, progress bar, Resume); the rest become
mini poster cards with progress + relative timestamp
- history entries now persist dur (video.duration) and poster;
/api/anime returns poster (parsed from the details page)
- old entries without dur render without a bar (backward compatible)
- browser test asserts the seeded entry, not a section header that
only existed via a cross-test side effect
jozamudi